Physical Activity and Physical and Mental Well-Being in Church Settings

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¹ Tyler J. VanderWeele is professor of epidemiology at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA; co-director of the Initiative on Health, Religion and Spirituality, faculty affiliate of the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Cambridge, MA; and Director of the Program on Integrative Knowledge and Human Flourishing, Cambridge.

Editorial

Tyler J VanderWeele. Am J Public Health. 2017 Jul.

. 2017 Jul;107(7):1023-1024.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2017.303843.

¹ Tyler J. VanderWeele is professor of epidemiology at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA; co-director of the Initiative on Health, Religion and Spirituality, faculty affiliate of the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Cambridge, MA; and Director of the Program on Integrative Knowledge and Human Flourishing, Cambridge.

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Fe en Acción: Promoting Physical Activity Among Churchgoing Latinas.
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